I started watching WWE in 2021 when they started broadcasting all the pay-per-views on Peacock. Since then I've become a huge fan. I got my brother to watch the last Survivor Series with me and he really liked it too. He's come over to watch almost all of the PPVs since then. WWE is coming near us in November, so my brother and I are going to get tickets and go to a house show. I'm glad we've found something we both enjoy to bond over.
I used to watch it too for the laughs but after a while it got boring for me. To be honest I don't see the appealing if you are not like 14.
How do they decide who wins? Ratings?
I used to laugh at wrestling too, but it's really good, especially right now since Triple H started running creative. They tell stories you care about, and the matches themselves are really exciting.
What do you mean by stories? Like "this wrestler is going to fight this other one because they had this beef before"?
Post some example of what your are talking about. Some recent good fight.
Well, the big story now is the Bloodline, the dominant faction in WWE led by Roman Reigns. And his cousins were like his underlings. They brought in Sami Zayn, who was a midcard comedy wrestler who wanted to be something more. He turned his back on his best friend Kevin Owens to join the Bloodline, but later when the Bloodline was giving Owens a beat down after a match with Roman, Sami couldn't take it anymore and stopped Roman by hitting him with a chair. This led to Roman beating Sami in his hometown full of screaming fans. Eventually Kevin and Sami are able to work out their differences with each other and they come together to win the tag team titles from the Usos, Roman's cousins, at Wrestlemania. This is a story that's played out for months, and all of these big moments were so exciting.
Here's a match that happened on Monday with probably my favorite wrestler, Gunther. This was the final match before he would break the record for the longest Intercontinental Championship reign of all time.
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How do they decide who wins?, ratings?
It's just whatever they think is best for the story. But yeah if someone is getting good responses from the crowds and drawing ratings then of course that will be taken into account.
They have writers, but usually the head honcho of the time is making the major creative decisions whether it was Vince mcmahon before or triple h now. There can also be a lot of politics with the wrestlers and other backtage management as far as who is getting pushed, which is a consideration of how they perform with the audience and in ring and who has paid their dues. Even a big star that fucks up with the guys backstage could pay for it with their career momentum. Bigger stars might have more pull with how they're presented, how exactly they win or lose and all of that, more so back in the day where they could be very particular about maintaining their image and big matchups were hyped up and drawn out for much longer so it was a bigger deal. The Montreal screw job is a classic example of real life drama playing out over predetermined outcomes.
There's some crazy and awesome stories from wrestlers and their lives on the road, its like a different world with their own code and shit and so many of them lived fast and died young
wrestling isn't real retard
Neither are movies, shows, fictional books. Actually wrestling is more real than all of those because they actually have to fall off turnbuckles onto hard canvases and such, so what do you watch anon? Just non fiction borefests?
Its like a play anon. If you want to watch real fights just watch UFC
>real
>the Ufc
O my sweet summer child.
I used to watch every week when I was younger during the late 90s early 2000s. Ive tried watching it some over the past few years, but it just seems like it's geared towards children and retards. I try to enjoy it, but I just end up bored and cringing the entire time. Its sad because I used to love it, but my god is it shit now.
Those were the good days. I used to watch it around the same time with my cousin and play the n64 games.
I started watching WWE on Survivor Series 2014 because my brother got me into wrestling. He's been a wrestling fan since the early 2000s and he always loved watching that, I never had any interest in it because it's "fake"
Fast foward, there's nothing that I love more than watching wrestling with my brother.
We order pizza, buy beer, and smoke weed together every time we watch any wrestling PPV together
Wrestlemania 30 was the series finale in my opinion. The last 8 years have sucked ass. Roman's reign of terror and womemes bullshit killed the company. I also hate how the fan base shifted from lower class whites, blacks, and latinos to neckbeard reddit homosexuals.
The neckbeard redditers are more into AEW
I watched Raw for the first time in years this past Monday. When the fuck did they change the opening intro to gross rap music? I miss shit like Thorn in your Eye, Across the Nation, and even Nickelback. Sad that they cater to ghetto hood rats and basedboy homos now.
I don't know if you've watched recently but they've got some good stuff going on. I really loved the Payback event last Saturday.
Wrestling is cool it's a very interesting unique business and culture, in Japan and Mexico too. I'm partial to late 80's early 90s where they had ridiculous and racist gimmicks and over the top cocaine fueled promos but the attitude era stuff is great.... some of the best and cringiest moments in wrestling history but mostly great
I don't want to be rude and maybe wrestling is more an american thing but I will never understand how someone that is above 14 would like to watch wrestling for a long period of time.
>I will never understand how someone that is above 14 would like to watch wrestling for a long period of time.
Typically you lose interest as a teen when you realize its scripted, then you learn to love it again when you dive into how it all works behind the scenes and gain an appreciation for the athleticism and toughness necessary to make it as a wrestler. Its basically a collection of stuntmen doing dangerous body destroying feats on a nightly basis.
I actually appreciate you anons in here bonding with your siblings over this, but for me it was UFC. Never caree for it but my whole family always buys the PPVs and we always meet up and drink and watch them its kino
Saw Wrestlemania this year tho and not horrible to drink to. My GF loves WWE i just happened to get into UFC myself
I started watching wrestling since 2009 then there were periods i watched it and didnt watched it. Then in 2019 i started to watch it again and a lot of people that came to my appartment that visited my brother were annoying and didnt let me watch the fucking tv because they wanted to talk about their shitty lives and smoke weed and i just wanted to watch wrestling in peace.
I hate this crap. I have to watch it because the retards I work with love it (retard wrangler btw). Two get so much into it that they have meltdowns over the dumbest shit like if a certain wrestler does not do a certain move or wins. They even try to emulate it and they don't understand its all acting. I've asked about banning it, but admin is saying "it's harmless fun." Bullshit: they are not the ones who have to de-escalate and restrain these retards, and have to wtite up the incident reports.
please tell some stories of retards doing super moves on each other please please
I miss the attitude era.
I miss catching late night ECW when I had insomnia.
WWE hasn't been good since 2013 to me. I've been watching sincde 2000 and I'm 26. I've watched from 2000-2013 and saw a few shows from 2014-now and it sucks to me.
The whole Sami Zayn and Tribal Chief shit was interesting though.
I prefer the more realistic and work rate oriented AEW.